Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 18:22:49 02/16/02
Go up one level in this thread
On February 16, 2002 at 13:02:46, Thoralf Karlsson wrote:
>On February 16, 2002 at 12:06:06, William H Rogers wrote:
>
>>I tried to email you withour any success. What do you have to do to get a
>>program entered into the testing? Does it rely on basic stength or does it
>>require winboard/xboard interface? Do you rate any program under 2000 elo?
>>It seems to me that years ago, I saw programs rated all of the way down to 1600
>>or so, but then again I may be wrong.
>
>We mainly test commercially available chess programs for PCs. And we prefer to
>test fewer entrants with many games (read 500-600) instead of many programs with
>fewer games.
>
>If we have enough games with the commercial programs, we sometimes play with
>amateur programs. The likelyhood for an amateur program to be tested increases
>significantly if we already have received copies of it and if other tests
>indicates that the program seem to be rather strong. And of course, it must be
>possible to play automatically with it!
>
>We would not consider to play with a PC-program with estimated rating
>(only)around 2000. But if a new chess computer with a possible rating above 2000
>arrives, and if we can borrow 1-2 copies, we would test it. We still have one or
>possibly two testers who are willing to play manually with chess computers.
>
>Thoralf Karlsson
What about testing Chess Tiger for Palm and ChessGenius for Palm?
I think many people would be interested in these ratings!
Christophe
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.